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What else can I call it?

Hi Nick

Atmospheric opacity producing a deep adiabatic atmosphere capped by a photosphere with a heat-loss rate matching the heat-flow from the surface? Heat has trouble getting out and thus it gets warm lower down... is there a good name for that? Opacity means so many things to stellar astronomers, but usually you call it "greenhouse effect" when discussing planets. Even at night the greenhouse effect still works...

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